Highland Avenue Baptist Church

The Sunday service in the well-used sanctuary at Highland Baptist ran the gamut of the Christian experience. Well, maybe not the gamut — the gamut is pretty huge — but a fair swath of it. This is going to read like a list, but pause (if you will) over each item — putting ’em all together might make for an interesting exercise. A kind of spiritual connect-the-dots. (I’m not going to dwell much on the sermon’s treatment of Timothy Leary on hippie philosophy, the proper mode of detachment from the world, Israel and Gaza and true peace, and the Christian vision of manhood ... +more